Tuesday, July 26, 2011

2011 Epiphanies - day 2 (the "recipe whisperer" is in)

Choucroute garni

This photo has nothing whatsoever to do with today's post. I just happen to like looking at it.

I have said over and over that I do not expect my readers to slavishly follow my recipes. I have even stopped giving very specific recipes. I want us all to be inspired by each other, to both, beg, and steal ideas and make them our own. One source of incomparable inspiration is Mary of One Perfect Bite. She tells great stories in impeccable English and pulls no punches about what a given recipe may or may not bring to the greater cosmos. Here's to you Mary, and may your considerable number of followers continue to take comfort and direction from your excellent guidance.Do recall that the "recipe whisperer" is available for your culinary dilemmas. Tell me what you don't like and why. By the weekend I will conjure up a solution or two for you. I'm still looking for help for myself with red cabbage (I've had one promising proposal), or something to make whole wheat pasta palatable.

Hmmm, whole wheat pasta is hard to love. I'm getting there slowly through baby steps, working my way there with whole grain pasta. Usually I just drown it in turkey sausage and vodka sauce, that seems to do the trick.

I adore Mary as well. And recipe whispering is a great name! I think that is how I've always cooked. I call it recipe OCD and I've got a bad case of it!

Nice to meet you and I can't wait to come back here and have some fun with ya.

I've got a quandry for you...I don't like okra or ricotta...what ya got for me?

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The book - it's very special

Many folks have been reading this and seeing how much of a story it is as opposed to just a compendium of recipes. To order go to http://www.createspace.com/3695950 or to Amazon, where you search for my name, not the title.

An honor from the Denver Post

I was surprised by this entry online from Tucker Shaw, former food editor for the Denver Post:

"Denver is lousy with home-cooking blogs, but one that isn't lousy is The Obsessive Chef, where avid (OK, obsessive) home cook Stephen Crout experiments with and offers tips on recipes from a variety of sources. One recent triumph: succulent, crisp-skinned "Broasted Chicken." Visit theobsessivechef.blogspot.com for that recipe and dozens more."